Cowgirl Cocktail

From oldest to newest

What’s a Cowgirl Cocktail?
Probably not what you were thinking. I’m talking about a cocktail of ideas.

Why Cowgirls?
Their mystique is enduring

Rules of the Road
“Over the river and through the woods / To Grandmother’s house we go. / The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh / Through the wide and drifted snow.”

A Toffer in Pants
I don’t take wearing pants for granted.

What’s in a name?
Some bronco names live on in history

What’s next?
How about cowgirl spies??

Mind-numbing Statistics
Where do 529 people employed by a traveling Wild West sleep?

Bandits, wolves, and weather were no match for Stagecoach Mary
And after that she was ready for a good cigar and a drink

Daredevil riders from Ukraine and Russia were crowd favorites
The Cossack riders included five women

Major Pauline Cushman: Union Spy
The only woman given a commission for secret-service work during the Civil War

The cost of eggs, then and now
In 1900, the Buffalo Bill Wild West used 3,360 eggs–for every breakfast!

Cowgirls’ spurs were flashy and complex—just like the cowgirls
Museum exhibit and new podcast highlight resilience and independence of early female entertainers and athletes

Mandy the Mule, a beloved character of old time El Paso
140 years ago trolley cars pulled by mules conveyed passengers across the border

Harum-Scarum Dime Novel Cowgirls
Characters based on the real lives of daredevil cowgirls

The first trucks, or ‘Delivery Cars,’ were a flop
But they answered a need for a car that could haul cargo

By Any Other Name
Shakespeare or Basano: The resurrection of an erasure 400 years old?

Nat Love and Deadwood Dick
“I’ve had an unusually adventurous life.”

Mountain Charley: Not a man!
Discovery made after she emptied her six-shooter into the man who killed her husband

The Fastest Nun in the West
‘At just 22 years old, the short-of-stature Sister Blandina stepped straight into the Wild West’